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The winds picked up just after dinner. Usopp was forced to fetch Nami who woke the remaining crew in time to tie safety lines and prepare the ship. They laughed together as the storm roared.

'Are we really doing this again? ' Usopp asked without much hope. 'Who crosses the reverse mountain in a storm and then decides to do it again in a WORSE storm? '

'Technically this is a small hurricane. ' Nami winked.

'Here! ' Sanji braced against the wind, pulling a barrel in place. 'Tradition is tradition. '

Luffy pulled himself over one hand firmly on his hat. Rain pounded across the deck in walls of water. Sanji steadied Usopp as the wind pulled him off his feet a moment and both boys steadied the barrel between them. Luffy nodded. He wrapped his free arm several times around Zoro and looked at each of his nakama, braced but ready.

'To be King of the Pirates, the freest man alive! '

'To become the World 's Greatest Swordsman. '